Nigel Farage at a press conference during the Reform UK party conference in Birmingham on Sept. 4, 2026.Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images

Farage spoils for a Brexit brawl with Burnham – POLITICO

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LIVERPOOL, England — Nigel Farage will use a speech in a Brexit-backing Labour heartland to start the fightback after Andy Burnham reignited Britain’s EU debate.

The Reform UK leader — a key architect of Brexit — will make a “major speech” in Doncaster on Thursday to rail against the Labour prime minister opening the door to a possible return to the bloc, a senior Reform official told POLITICO.

Burnham used his first Labour conference as leader, in Liverpool on Tuesday, to snip three political livewires in British politics, including proposing a change to the “triple lock” protecting the state pension and electoral reform.